This has been a big week in the long-running — and still very much not-over — saga of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

“More than 90% probably, of RPF writers, are appalled and disgusted and ashamed whenever anything like that happens,” says Wilson. “That’s a major violation of the RPF writer’s privacy, as well as the ...

In my high-school English classes, I often tell my students that they write their papers backwards: They devise a thesis and then look for evidence to support it. They’ll find what they want to see, I ...

On Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, a batch of the the highly-anticipated files from sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were shared to the public. The release came after Congress passed a ...

Washington has been roiled by controversy surrounding the files linked to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for months, but the scandal heated up at the end of last week with the Justice Department ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

The Department of Justice will not release all Epstein files on the court-ordered deadline. Several hundred thousand documents are expected to be released Friday, with more to follow next week. The ...

On Friday, after years of demands, punchlines, and politicking, the Department of Justice released the massive trove of heavily redacted documents and photos that comprise the Epstein files. A ...

Microsoft updated its Windows 11 support documentation to clarify that AI agents now require explicit user permission to access six key folders: Documents, Downloads ...

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